Year 2000 - 412

Mexican feature film

A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Upon opening it, they discover the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was be-headed by Sir Francis Drake. The head proceeds in controlling the minds of a big hulking goof and even the young woman's best friend in order to get back his body.

Panico is the surrealist-inspired movement that Jodorowsky founded in 1962. "Our current generation - writes Jodorowsky in his 1965 'manifesto' Towards the ephemeral panic or drawing the theater out of the theater - is a circus in which the characters divide in 'augusti', clown and audience. The panic man is the clown; the citizen who affirms only one idea at a time, seeks a single solution for each problem and believes he is 'being', is the august; the immense mass of idle idlers are the public. However, every audience is an 'august' in power and every 'august' can evolve into a clown because the world is panic. »

TheIrish Tenors televised concert from Dublin is most notable for the debut of new tenor Finbar Wright after McDermott had taken leave from the group following the death of his mother. McDermott does make a brief but dramatic appearance, however, to sing "The Last Rose of Summer," as a tribute to his parents, then rejoins Kearns and Tynan for "Red Is the Rose." And of course both shows include "Danny Boy"--as inevitable a closer as "Nessun dorma" was for that other trio of tenors. I

From Long Island, New York to Portland, Maine gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth have experienced homophobia in their schools. Youth Outloud turns up the volume on glbt youth issues in schools and gives voice to a few bold teens that have first-hand experience.

A short film by Gertrude Moser-Wagner

A little kid follows a mysterious cat around the city to a magical journey.

A director says, "Lights, Camera, Action!" and Hayan begins the sex scene with an actor. However, her underwear came into the camera, so a cinematographer calls, "Cut!" and all the staff are glancing her white underwear. Hayan, who was a star for a short time in porn films, left saying she would never take her clothes off for the camera again and will be cast for an art film. But the conditions on the set don't meet with her expectations.

Death of Game is the remake of a scene from Bruce Lee's film, Game of Death. The mid seventies was a period of growing visibility of actors of color in Blaxploitation and Asian action films. These genres both gave mainstream exposure to but also paradoxically reinforced the stereotypes of Blacks and Asians. The moment of the meeting and subsequent fight between Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabar represents a point of contact defiantly outside of a dominant, white culture.

ALL THAT'S SOLID (and) MELTS INTO AIR are each separate films shot at an exhibition of the urban landscape artist Tyree Suyton in Cambridge at Harvard. I was struck by the redemptive critical and visionary character of his work which struck me as similar to G.M. Hopkins or Clarence Smith. Coincidentally as I was shooting these films I went to a screening of Charles Burnett and asked him what film he would like to make but couldn't get the money for. He replied, "a feature narrative about Tyree Suyton." So I put together four of the films from Spring 2000 into a four-film work called "4 For Charles Burnett - All That's Solid Melts Into Air". They are: ALL THAT'S SOLID, LIGHT LICK, TOSCANINI'S EUROPEAN SIDEWALK CAFE, and MELTS INTO AIR.

After Wang Axiong was released from prison, he temporarily worked while at the funeral society. When he took a fancy to Tang Rumei who helped his mother at the flower shop door, he took the opportunity to take her to the countryside to rape

This feature documentary offers a reflection on the changing reality of work. The 20th century has seen the creation of colossal wealth and exploding economies. Yet, the days of industry providing mass employment are over. In the global economy, human resources are being replaced more and more by technology. Will this revolution mean the end of work as we know it? Contributing to the discussion are V. Forrester, author of The Economic Horror; US economist J. Rifkin; J. Attali, former president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other experts.

8mm film by Maeda Toshiyuki